The Hubble Telescope (and the most important photograph ever taken)

The Hubble Telescope, and Why it is Amazing

In research for my lens The Lunacy of Religion I followed link after link online getting completely obsessed with the topic, and along the way I spend a few hours looking through photographs taken by the Hubble Telescope. The photographs are amazing, and it is surprising to me that people will limit the wonder and majesty of the universe to the sentence 'God did it'. The universe is far more beautiful and complex and awe-inspiring than that, and that is why I made this lens. In the history of modern astronomy, there is probably no one greater leap forward than the building and launch of the space telescope known as the Hubble. While NASA has had many ups and downs, the launch and continued operation of the Hubble space telescope probably ranks next to the moon landings and the development of the Space Shuttle as one of the greatest space exploration accomplishments of the last hundred years.

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